The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

After the New England Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams by the final score of 13-3 in Super Bowl LIII last night, as it was quarterback Tom Brady's 6th title, equalling Michael Jordan, the comparisons started pouring in faster than creepy robot commercials by TurboTax. "Is Tom Brady as dominant as Michael Jordan?" "Is Tom Brady the Michael Jordan of the NFL?" "Is Tom Brady the greatest athlete in history?" I've always despised GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) debates for many reasons. Most importantly, games evolve over the course of time, so it's virtually impossible to compare a player from the 1960s to a player from today. It's impossible to say with any certainty, "X player from the '60s would have put up Y number's in today's game while Z player from today would have put up XX numbers in the '60s." So how can we then ultimately decide who the better player was? Is it simply based on how they dominated the le...

So, I praised college football announcer/analyst Jesse Palmer the other day. Now for the other side of the coin. In the college game, there's Brock Huard. He seems to know his stuff and I have nothing against him as a person or even an analyst, but the guy's voice gets on my nerves sometimes. When he takes normal breaths while speaking, he sounds okay, even though his words sound like they're over-enunciated. However, when he speaks too much without taking those normal breaths, the guy sounds like a goat. "...and he is a great passer, a great leader and just a great quarterback There can be no questioning thaaaaaaaaaat." Another voice which is beginning to get annoying at times is Chris Berman. I've always gotten a kick out of Berman - his enthusiasm, his energy, his one-liners, his nicknames. The guy brings excitement to highlights. However, it seems as if he has trouble taking normal breaths when speaking. It's like the guy wants to set the world recor...